Abrahams Boys, Joe Hill
Abrahams Boys, Joe Hill
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Abraham's Boys

Author: Joe Hill

Narrator: David Ledoux

Unabridged: 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 10/16/2007

Synopsis

From the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this e-short story—from Joe Hill’s award-winning collection 20th Century Ghosts.Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945. . . .Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and a gift for attracting abuse. It isn't easy to make friends when you're the only inflatable boy in town. . . .Francis is unhappy. Francis was human once, but that was then. Now he's an eight-foot-tall locust and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing. . . .John Finney is locked in a basement that's stained with the blood of half a dozen other murdered children. In the cellar with him is an antique telephone, long since disconnected, but which rings at night with calls from the dead. . . . 

About Joe Hill

Born in 1972 to authors Tabitha (nee Spruce) and Stephen King, Joseph Hillstrom King grew up in the state of Maine along with his younger brother, (also a writer) Owen King.

At age 9, Joe appeared in the 1982 film Creepshow, which was written by his famous father. In 1997 he chose to use an abbreviated form of his given name (a reference to executed labor leader Joe Hill, for whom he was named), out of a desire to succeed based solely on his own merits rather than as the son of Stephen King, one of the world's best-selling and most-recognized living novelists. Hill's debut, Heart-Shaped Box, won the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel. His second, Horns, was made into a film Freakfest starring Daniel Radcliffe. His other novels include NOS4A2, and his #1 New York Times Best-Seller, The Fireman.

Hill currently lives in New Hampshire with a corgi named McMurtry after a certain beloved writer of cowboy tales.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Andrew

That was a great little story! What's it like growing up as a Van Helsing? Bet you never wondered did you? Well now I've asked you will wonder and this story will tell you! I really enjoyed this and it was brilliant in the way it showed how easily people can confuse fantasy and reality. Was Van Helsing......more

Goodreads review by Sherwell

Story of Abraham Van Helsing, and his two sons, Max Van Helsing and Rudolf Van Helsing. Highly recommended.......more

Goodreads review by Michael

An interesting spinoff of Dracula that explores the mentality of Abraham Van Helsing. It portrays him as a senile old man that has trouble distinguishing reality from fiction. He drags a woman into his basement believing that she is a vampire when she’s really just an ordinary woman in extremely poo......more

Goodreads review by Maggie

To me, one of his best stories! The only thing that bothered me is that it breathes German instead of Dutch. No Dutchmen says Nuh? Germans do. In my imagination I could hear them speak with German accents... Also little affiliation for Dutch people with vampires. Germans however do love vampire stor......more

Goodreads review by Jonathan

I am a little conflicted with Abraham's Boys, because I am not a fan of vampire mythology but I do love the majority of Joe Hill's work as a author. That being said almost all of the vampire lore was lost on me, with my only real exposure to vampires being the two 90's film adaptions of Interview wi......more

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